By Brandon Russell |
The Earth won’t be around forever, but you and I won’t be alive to see the end. It sounds ominous, and a bit insane. But scientists believe that the sun will go through some incredible changes in about 1.1 billion years, culminating in a pretty…
By Ron Duwell |
The United States Navy will begin mounting Laser Weapons System (LaWS) aboard its ships beginning next year. The video above shows a prototype of the weapon firing at a surveillance drone over the open ocean and explains the different functions of the laser, such as…
By Brandon Russell |
A new research technique developed in collaboration by Japanese and New Zealand astronomers could introduce a better way to spot Earth-like planets. Through MOA (Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics), researchers say the new method could measure planets that fall out of the Sun-Earth distance scale—planets that…
By Sean P. Aune |
NASA has a daring plan to capture an asteroid weighing up to 500 tons and put it into orbit around the Moon. According to U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), the latest version of the federal budget includes $100 million earmarked for NASA’s asteroid-retrieval project. The plan…
By Adriana Lee |
President Barack Obama wants to pick your brain. Literally. The POTUS has announced an audacious new endeavor — to map the human mind. Like scientists map the human genome, the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative will seek to unlock the mysteries of what…
By Adriana Lee |
Can you imagine data transfer speeds as fast as the speed of light? British researchers can. In fact, they’re almost there. Researcher Francesco Poletti and his team at the University of Southampton in England have created optical fibers that can transfer data at a jaw-dropping speed…
By Sean P. Aune |
Voyager 1 appears to have finally left our solar system. Should an alien culture ever find it and play the infamous golden disc, what sounds will they hear? Ever since Voyager 1 launched on Sept. 5, 1977, we have always heard about “the golden disc”…
By Roy Choi |
Some billionaire executives pick up hobbies like golf, fishing, buying a sports team, but not Jeff Bezos, he instead goes hunting, hunting for rockets. Jeff Bezos has funded a team to scour the Atlantic Ocean floor in search of rockets. Wednesday, Bezos posted on his…
By Brandon Russell |
After 35 years of careening through space—11.5 billion miles of constant traveling—a man-made object has crossed the threshold into the deepest unknown. Scientists on Wednesday announced new findings that suggest Voyager I has finally left our solar system, beyond the heliosphere and into a vast,…
By Roy Choi |
Researchers from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a new radio frequency chip capable of sending/receiving 10 gigabits per second. That equates to a 4.7GB movie file that can be downloaded in 3.76 seconds. Park Cheol Soon, the lead KAIST…
By Brandon Russell |
This doesn’t really capture the scale of Mars’s Mount Sharp, a destination NASA’s Curiosity Rover will eventually explore, but it shows a geography that rises more than 3 miles above the Gale Crater floor. That’s taller than any mountain here in the contiguous states in…
By Brandon Russell |
After a minor setback, NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has analyzed a rock sample in its Sample Analysis at Mars and Chemistry and Mineralogy instruments. And scientists have concluded what we’ve suspected all along: Mars may have once supported life. According to the findings, sulfur, hydrogen,…
By Brandon Russell |
A recent video explored how 3D printing might change the world as we know it, but never did I imagine this was possible. According to a new report, 75 percent of a man’s skull—it’s unclear if the report means surface area or mass—was successfully replaced…
By Brandon Russell |
All you and I see is a scorched rocky terrain. But what NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sees is completely different, and new data collected by the craft could change the way we see Earth’s most mysterious neighbor. Under the pitted canyons, flatlands and chasms are…
By Brandon Russell |
It was like any other Friday except for that incredibly insane, I can’t believe that happened, Russian meteorite. That thing, on the same day as the DA14 was whizzing by Earth, seemingly came out of nowhere, crashing through our atmosphere at incredible speeds before the…
By Maximum PC |
The STRaND-1 nanosatellite carries a Google Nexus One At a time when the who’s who of the mobile world are busy strutting their stuff at the Mobile World Congress, Surrey Space Centre (University of Surrey) and Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) Ltd are celebrating a mobile launch…
By Brandon Russell |
Curiosity’s paradise vacation on Mars has run into an unexpected issue, with one of its onboard computers malfunctioning this past week. According to National Geographic, the computer became corrupted and failed to go into sleep mode, which could set the rover’s activities back a week…
By Roy Choi |
After what seemed like a successful launch of the SpaceX Dragon Capsule to the International Space Station, SpaceX product manager John Insprucker stated the “Dragon is experiencing trouble right now.”…
By Brandon Russell |
How the airship is going from propaganda war machine to something that could change the world. They were billed as the future of transportation, the pinnacle of long-distance luxury travel. Forget planes, trains, or boats. Airships were the new gold standard – “lighter-than-air” – an…
By Roy Choi |
Space X launches Falcon 9 for Mission CSR-2 to resupply the International Space Station with supplies and equipment. Watch the live stream here as it makes its way to the ISS. Streaming by Ustream UPDATE: It successfully launched!…
By Brandon Russell |
Holy wow this is incredible I can’t believe what I’m seeing. Just look at Earth to scale. We’re like a speck of dust compared to the Sun, waiting to be consumed in a fiery Armageddon. At least it looks friggin’ beautiful, actually seeing activity on…
By Roy Choi |
SpaceX is taking to the skies (and beyond) again, Friday, March 1 10:30 a.m. (EST) to be exact. The SpaceX Falcon 9 will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida Friday morning and we’ll have the livestream here on TechnoBuffalo. After the launch, the spacecraft, Dragon, will…
By Ron Duwell |
The US Food and Drug Administration has green lit the use of the Argus II, a two part bionic eye designed for patients who are almost completely blind through retinis pigmentosa. Its creator, Second Sight, was able to convince an advisory panel that the benefits…
By Brandon Russell |
A new planet, about the size of the moon, has been discovered about 210 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. That’s about big enough for you and a few of your close friends. Dubbed Kepler-37b, the diminutive rock is actually part of a new…
